Rum & IT

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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1 1⁄2 oz Italicus liqueur
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered Fragata Green Olives.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with skewered olives.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
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Review:

Created in April 2017 by yours truly (Simon Difford) at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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History:

I mixed these two ingredients together just to ascertain where to go from there when creating a drink with Italicus. Then do I add a dash of maraschino, curaçao or bitters? I tried numerous liqueurs and bitters but I like the simplicity of this two ingredient cocktail. Now try it with gin – yup, Gin & It also works well. Later, the same mixing session also gave birth to For Sake's Sake.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.5 standard drinks
  • 23.62% alc./vol. (23.62° proof)
  • 21.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Herbert Brant’s Avatar Herbert Brant
9th August 2023 at 19:59
I liked the original mix well enough, but found it too sweet. A judicious amount of dry vermouth helped tame the sweetness, without changing too much the essential flavour of the original.
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